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Dust-shrouded Milky Way star cluster may be nearly as old as the universe

GlobalScience2026-11-02

Astronomers determined that VVV CL001, a metal-poor globular cluster near the Milky Way center, is about 13.4 billion years old despite being hidden by interstellar dust.

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